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Palace of Santa Cruz de Ribadulla

Vedra, Santiago, A Coruña

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Palace of Santa Cruz de Ribadulla

Monument · Vedra, Santiago, A Coruña

The pazo of Santa Cruz de Ribadulla stands at the site of Ortigueira, in the parish of Santa Cruz de Ribadulla, in the municipality of Vedra, overlooking the Ulla valley. It was built by the Abraldes family and bought in the 16th century by Juan Ibáñez de Mondragón; in 1811 Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos lived there, and it was also the residence of a Marquis of Ribadulla, a title granted by Charles II in 1683. The garden holds more than two hundred species, an avenue of centuries-old olive trees laid out in the shape of a cross, and a collection of camellias with two-hundred-year-old specimens up to nine metres tall; it also preserves the baroque fountains of la Nogueira, la Coca and that of el Santiaguiño, from 1670, next to the chapel joined to it by an arch in 1676. It was declared a Ben de Interese Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 11 December 2001.

Photo: Jose Luis Cernadas Iglesias from Coruña, España (CC BY 2.0)

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